To: blam
I knew Yellowstone had a geyser. I guess I never thought about there being a volcano there. Quite a few bison would be affected.
2 posted on
08/29/2003 5:49:49 PM PDT by
cinnathepoet
(Why, oh why, oh why? -- Rabbit)
To: cinnathepoet
5 posted on
08/29/2003 5:53:52 PM PDT by
blam
To: cinnathepoet
Yellowstone is one of the largest super volcanoes in the world. It is also VERY active.
7 posted on
08/29/2003 5:54:12 PM PDT by
meanie monster
(hooked on phonics werked for me.)
To: cinnathepoet
The Toba 'super volcano' blew 75,000 years ago and only 2-5,000 humans worldwide survived. This 'bottleneck' is detectable in human DNA.
10 posted on
08/29/2003 5:58:18 PM PDT by
blam
To: cinnathepoet
Quite a few bison would be affected.True. And women and minorities will be hurt the most.
12 posted on
08/29/2003 6:00:45 PM PDT by
rdb3
(They've read all the books but they can't find the answers...)
To: cinnathepoet
I knew Yellowstone had a geyser. I guess I never thought about there being a volcano there. Quite a few bison would be affected.
Err, well, if the entire Caldera went up, it would kill every human being in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, and end all agriculture in the midwest for years, likely leading to mass starvation in the US, which is more than a few bison :-)
However, it's extremely unlikely that happens in our lifetimes.
The recent spate of articles about the lake are about the possibility of a small localyzed eruption, NOT the caldera going up. It's possible to have small eruptions at Yellowstone without a full caldera blast.
20 posted on
08/29/2003 6:17:20 PM PDT by
John H K
To: cinnathepoet
I knew Yellowstone had a geyser. I guess I never thought about there being a volcano there. Quite a few bison would be affected.
Yellowstone is a gigantic caldera. It's one of the largest on Earth.
80 posted on
08/30/2003 7:07:00 PM PDT by
aruanan
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